tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post250645489633636806..comments2024-03-28T10:33:39.051-07:00Comments on Horror Movie A Day: Darkness (2002)BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06480847497966171794noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-7665604680244551452016-03-25T04:43:18.743-07:002016-03-25T04:43:18.743-07:00The unrated version is the only one to see. The pg...The unrated version is the only one to see. The pg 13 version chopped out huge chunks of plot which turn it into a completely different movie. I'm REALLY surprised at the bad reviews this movie gets. The subject matter( what's actually going on in the house) is really disturbing and the ramifications of it make for a grim ending. The thing is films like Friday the 13, TCM and Chucky for whatever reasons are considered horror movies and films like this aren't in the same category as those films so people don't consider it worthy of being called horror. There isn't a huge body count or rubber masks or 35 year old high school jocks and virgins so they consider it boring. They probably have ADD anyway. This film is creepey as hell and is a true horror film in every way. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-45238717869991740822012-06-20T03:20:32.418-07:002012-06-20T03:20:32.418-07:00Holy shit, i've been trying to find this movie...Holy shit, i've been trying to find this movie for forever! I remembered seeing it in theaters in middle school, and could not remember the name of it for the life of me. I also remember not being the biggest fan of it either...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-23684338764018342902012-06-19T15:59:32.072-07:002012-06-19T15:59:32.072-07:00I rather liked Darkness, though I acknowledge that...I rather liked Darkness, though I acknowledge that it's a flawed project. Here's a review that I penned in 2010 for my blog:<br /><br />A film that premiered in Spain in 2002 but was not released in the United States until 2004, Darkness boasts a downright Lovecraftian ending and a story that blends aspects of the haunted house genre with a drama about a nuclear family of four that spins into dysfunction when the father becomes mentally unstable. A teen girl (Regina) moves to an isolated house in Spain with her younger brother (Paul), her mother (Maria), and her father (Mark). Regina, who has befriended a local fellow (Carlos) during her first three weeks in her new home, regularly swims at a community pool. Mark (like Jack Torrance in The Shining) grows irritable, unpredictable, and eventually violent. Meanwhile, Paul repeatedly draws six children with red slashes across their throats, and he sees kids in the darkness and develops bruises on his neck. Regina (for no discernable reason) begins to suspect that the house is somehow causing all of her family’s problems. She and Carlos research the house, visit its architect, and follow a trail of clues that lead them to conclude that the place was the site of an attempted occult ritual forty years earlier, and that someone is about to attempt the ritual again because a certain type of eclipse that only rolls around every forty years is about to occur. The ritual involves seven children having their throats slit “by loving hands.” I can’t summarize the plot any further without spoiling the best parts. <br /><br />Though flawed in some ways, Darkness contains plentiful spooky imagery and a unique enough story to make it worth a watch. The tale includes some narrative hiccups that made me laugh (like when Carlos fails to mention to Regina that he developed a photo of her and saw children in the background who were not present when he snapped the picture and when Regina and Paul escape from the house where all hell is breaking loose and leave their mom to fend for herself). Also, there’s a scene that involves research at a library in which Regina and Carlos track down information about the occult ritual in quick and convenient fashion. There’s a subplot about Regina’s hobby of swimming that goes nowhere (I assumed that in the third act Regina would have to swim somewhere other than a pool). Despite these complaints, I liked Darkness overall. Original horror movies with disturbing endings are rare. This one’s worth a look.Daniel S. Duvallhttp://www.danduvall.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-65207119806747782992012-06-19T00:13:54.629-07:002012-06-19T00:13:54.629-07:00nice writtennice writtenlive sportshttp://sportsfunia.comnoreply@blogger.com